Energy Bangla

Government wants to make electricity available to every household within 2021. Keeping this vision in mind, Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB or REB) has counted its Consumer crossing 1.5 crore recently. In fact, in last March of this year, REB instantiated 5 lac and 8 thousand new connections throughout the country. REB ensured electricity connection to 3 lac and 25 thousand families more in the last January of this year. At... »

Tension is cutting through Chittagong’s Banshkhali with protesters against a coal-based power plant and its supporters refusing to back down as a truce looks distant. A forum styled ‘Residents for Saving Homestead’ has threatened to march wearing shrouds to UNO office and besiege it on Sunday if the cancellation of the plant project at Gondamara is not announced by Saturday evening. Oppositely, ‘Residents for Development’ has announced a human-chain programme... »

A Bangladeshi company has suspended work on a planned Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant after four demonstrators opposing its construction were killed earlier this week, a senior company official said on Thursday. Villagers for and against the power plant clashed on Monday before riot police fired their weapons after coming under attack. Three protesters died that day and a fourth died later in the hospital. S Alam Group, a Bangladeshi conglomerate... »

Bangladesh signed a $217 million deal with the World Bank on Thursday to help increase the country’s electric power generation. The financing from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) will transform a gas-fired steam unit that is currently generating 170 megawatts (MW) into an energy efficient 409 MW plant, the World Bank said in a statement. The project will also reduce the specific fuel consumption per gigawatt hour by... »

Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his happiness Wednesday over the economic breakthrough and asserted the GDP growth wouldn’t decline down seven per cent in the next year. “At last… we have .achieved seven per cent growth. It took six to seven years,” he told the media after a meeting of the cabinet committee on public purchase at Bangladesh Secretariat. Asked whether it would be possible to retain the present growth... »

Bangladesh-China Power Company Limited (BCPCL) Signed a $1.56 billion contract with a Chinese consortium at Redison hotel for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a 1,320MW coal-fired power plant to be set up near the Payra Sea Port in Patuakhali. The Chinese consortium won the contract as lone bidder. BCPCL is a 50-50 joint venture between the state-run North-West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh and China National Machinery Import &... »

A deal is going to be signed at 29th of March next, on installing a 1,320 MW Power Plant in the seashore of Payra. Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BCPCL) will be constructing this Power Plant. The Managing Director of BCPCL and North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) A M Khorshdadul Alam has confirmed Energy Bangla that, the auction was over successfully. A final agreement is only left to be... »

Honorable Prime Minister recently disclosed her government’s power sector mega plan to generate 60,000MW electricity by 2041. The plan revealed while inaugurating some development projects including power plants through video conference on February 25, 2016. In the video conference, Prime Minister detailed the expected power generation to be 24,000MW in 2021; 40,000MW in 2031 and 60,000MW in 2041. In the revised plan the government didn’t clarify the fuel base of... »

A high-profile UNESCO delegation has paid their visit to Rampal’s Friendship Thermal Power Plant. Three of the delegates visited the project site of the power plant in Wednesday. While looking over the site, the UNESCO delegation had a meeting with the officials of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd. (BIFPCL). The UNESCO officials talked with the locals also regarding the power plant issue. World Heritage Centre of UNESCO has sent this... »

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have jointly inaugurated the supply of power and internet bandwidth between the countries. Neighbouring Tripura state will supply 100 MW of power to Bangladesh district Comilla and Bangladesh will supply 100 GBPS internet bandwidth from Cox’s Bazar to India’s Agartala after the Wednesday’s inauguration. Both prime ministers inaugurated the facilities through video-conferencing. Bangladesh and Tripura have historically shared a... »